The Multiplier Effect – “There is more intelligence inside our organisations than we are using.” Liz Wiseman
According to their research carried out between 2011 and 2016 after assessing hundreds of executives, they found that managers were utilizing just 66 percent of their people’s capability on average. Nevertheless, what we experience day after day that people are often overworked and yet underutilized at the same time. Latent talents exist everywhere.
In addition to that our world is rapidly changing. To keep up and create the type of workplace where people thrive, more motivated and engaged we need Diminishing Leaders to be replaced by those who serve as true Multipliers, inspiring collective intelligence and capability on a mass scale.
What is happening?
- Too many organisations are still overmanaged and underled. – What is the difference between managing and leading for you? When do you manage and when do you lead your team/organisation? Where is your focus?
- Sometimes the good guys the bad guys. Vast majority of diminishing happening inside organisations done with best intentions. These leaders are called the Accidental Diminishers by Liz Wiseman. – How can you recognize your Accidental Diminishing tendencies? When do you accidentally (with good intention) block your team energies/efforts/ideas? How can you minimize these?
- The biggest barriers are contextual and cultural. Unlocking individual potential is not just a matter of personal will and individual behavioural change; it is systemic. – What impact do you have on your team and on your organisation? What is getting in the way for yourself and for your team to be successful? What are the blocks and barriers in the system? What do you do about them in order to help your team and your organisation to succeed?
Diminishing Leaders are the genius ones, they draw intelligence, capability and energy out of the people around them. Their focus is to be the smartest person in the room.
Multiplier Leaders are the genius maker, the talent magnet, they bring out the intelligence in others. They build collective, viral intelligence in the organisation.
How can you become a Multiplier Leader?
4 practices of the Talent Magnet:
- look for talent everywhere
- find people’s native genius (build on their natural strengths, we spend way too much time on development areas only)
- utilize people at their fullest based on their native genius
- remove the blockers, deal with the saboteurs (this is a must for leaders, should become a daily practice for them)
Source: Multipliers by Liz Wiseman